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DELTA TWP. - A Lansing man has been charged in connection with an incident that injured an Eaton County Sheriff's deputy during a traffic stop early Thursday.

Benjamin Murphy, 25, was arraigned Thursday on a felony charge of fleeing and eluding and misdemeanor charges of drunken driving and failing to stop at the scene of an injury accident, sheriff's officials said in a news release.

The incident happened as deputies were assisting a Michigan State Police trooper with a traffic stop on the eastbound side of Saginaw Highway at Canal Road about 2:10 a.m. Thursday.

Police allege that Murphy was driving a pickup truck that struck the driver's side of a sheriff's patrol vehicle and then the arm of a deputy who was standing near the front of that vehicle. The trooper and a second deputy at the scene pursued the driver and arrested him, officials said.

The injured deputy was treated at a local hospital and is expected to return to duty soon, Sheriff Tom Reich said in the news release.

Contact Ken Palmer at (517) 377-1032 or kpalmer@lsj.com. Follow him on Twitter @KBPalm_lsj.